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The rain ceased the trees grew shorter; hemlock and spruce resolved themselves into a stunted horizon of tamarack; then came a glimmering light through an open space and a sheet of water, glistening like steel, appeared ahead of them and they emerged suddenly upon a hard, smooth point of sand. "Bear Pond!" the trapper announced cheerily as he halted. "Here we be, by whimey!
'Neither Ed nor I are going to give you away sit down, and I shook Ed. He sat up blinking like an old toad in a hard shower. 'By whimey! said Ed, staring at Bob as if he had seen a ghost. "'I'm hongry, Bill, said Bob. 'Bill, I'm hongry, and he began to stagger and cry like a baby. I got hold of his rifle and Ed caught him just as he fainted.
"And as it is a decision which concerns all of us," Thayor resumed, "I want to tell you now that I have decided to buy Big Shanty Brook as far as we can see, and build a home here for myself and my family." "Gee whimey!" cried the Clown. "I want to know!" The keen eyes of the trapper opened wide in astonishment. "I have left the matter of purchase," continued Thayor, "entirely in Holcomb's hands.
She nodded to the door behind the bar and the splinters sticking through its panel. "Gosh all whimey!" he exclaimed; "who done that?" "You done it, Freme; you was crazy drunk. There warn't none of 'em could handle you 'cept me, I tell ye. I spoke to ye and ye come 'long with me back inter the kitchen and set there lookin' at me strange-like for most an hour.
"Halloo!" came faintly from below where the timber was thickest. The Clown sprang to his feet. "Thar they be, Hite!" he said briskly. "By whimey thar they be!" The trapper strode out into the tangled clearing and after a resonant whoop in reply stood listening and smiling. "Jest like Billy Holcomb," he remarked. "He's took 'bout as mean goin' as a feller could find to git here."
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